That doesn’t mean he doesn’t know he needs to perform. He has that expectation of himself. It won’t be good for anyone involved if he doesn’t.

“I’ve got to go out and play well, and if I don’t, people are going to be mad, I’m going to be mad, everyone’s going to be mad,” he said. “So my focus is to play well.”

That seems simple, right?

Players in the past have crumbled under pressure to be great.

Head coach Kliff Kingsbury has said on more than one occasion that Murray “was made for this,” having been raised to compete, to be expected to be great and it has shown at every level. He went undefeated in high school. In his one season as a starter in college, he won the Heisman and took his team to the college football playoff.

He expects to be great.

As for the expectations and predictions he will be the rookie of the year, he doesn’t really care or pay attention.

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